Paper feed from roll and cassette is performed at the front of the printer. Settings are controlled easily at the front operation panel. And ink tanks are also easily changed at the front.

The iPF5000 features 4 media-feed methods: roll*, cassette, top-loading manual and front-loading manual. Media up to 1.5mm thick can be inserted in front-loading manual feed. The cassette holds 250 sheets of plain paper. When both the cassette and roll paper are loaded at the same time, you simply select the media-feed method on the printer driver and the printer automatically switches to the correct media.

* Optional Auto Roll Feed Unit required for the iPF5000.

New 12-colour LUCIA pigment inks feature 3 special colour inks and 2 gray shades. The large colour gamut enables the output of brilliant hues and tones on a wide variety of media, including glossy, art, matte and signage. New LUCIA pigment inks offer exceptional permanence for beautiful long-lasting prints.

The addition of red, green and blue inks meets a wider range of professional needs, such as digital photo prints and posters requiring more vivid colours.

From the highlights to the shadows of monochrome photographs, our new gray and photo gray inks, in combination with our superior black inks, help to ensure rich gradation with less graininess. Furthermore, by reducing the use of colour ink, LUCIA produces more stable, higher quality monochrome expression, thus avoiding colour shift.

The iPF5000/iPF9000 with the new LUCIA ink system features 3 primary colours. The 3 new inks – red, green and blue (RGB) – are used alongside conventional C (cyan), M (magenta) and Y (yellow). By using these RGB inks, which are symmetrical in hue to the CMY inks, you get distortion-free, well-balanced and clear colour expression over the entire colour circle.